Re: How to upgrade in place from 16.10 unity to 17.04 gnome

2017-05-02 Thread Brian Burch
Thanks Marius, This is short top-post because I won't respond inline to your valuable comments and suggestions at the moment. However, I didn't want you think I wasn't paying attention! I am grateful for your input. I often run virtual machines on that particular system, so I ought to be abl

Re: How to upgrade in place from 16.10 unity to 17.04 gnome

2017-04-27 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:17:26PM +1000, Brian Burch wrote: > On 17/04/17 18:10, Pander wrote: > > To remove Unity, I simply use dpkg -P packagenames. When that list > > becomes long from many dependencies, I put the output of that > > through grep to get all the depending packages and cat those t

Re: How to upgrade in place from 16.10 unity to 17.04 gnome

2017-04-19 Thread Brian Burch
On 17/04/17 18:10, Pander wrote: To remove Unity, I simply use dpkg -P packagenames. When that list becomes long from many dependencies, I put the output of that through grep to get all the depending packages and cat those to a file. Edit the file (vim and a lot of Shift-j) and put dpkg -P at

Re: How to upgrade in place from 16.10 unity to 17.04 gnome

2017-04-17 Thread Pander
To remove Unity, I simply use dpkg -P packagenames. When that list becomes long from many dependencies, I put the output of that through grep to get all the depending packages and cat those to a file. Edit the file (vim and a lot of Shift-j) and put dpkg -P at the beginning. I use the same trick

How to upgrade in place from 16.10 unity to 17.04 gnome

2017-04-17 Thread Brian Burch
There is a lot of historical advice on this subject relating to earlier versions of ubuntu, but a lot of it is out of date. I have switched my own systems from unity to gnome in the past, but gave up a few releases ago because unity had improved to the point where living with it was better tha